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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separation |
| Synonyms: | detachment, disconnectedness, disconnection, disjointedness, disjunction, disseverment, disunion, division, divorce, parting, severance, split |
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| Main Entry: | disjunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separation |
| Synonyms: | detachment, disconnectedness, disconnection, disjointedness, disjuncture, disseverment, disunion, division, divorce, parting, severance, split |
| Main Entry: | disunion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | division |
| Synonyms: | argument, breakup, conflict, detachment, disagreement, disconnection, discord, disjunction, disjuncture, dispute, dissension, dissidence, disunity, divergence, divergency, divorce, parting, partition, separation, severance, split |
| Main Entry: | disunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | division |
| Synonyms: | argument, breakup, conflict, detachment, disagreement, disconnection, discord, disjunction, disjuncture, dispute, dissension, dissidence, disunion, divergence, divergency, divorce, parting, partition, separation, severance, split |
| Main Entry: | severance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | division |
| Synonyms: | analysis, apportionment, autopsy, bisection, breaking, breaking down, breaking up, carving, contrasting, cutting up, demarcation, departmentalizing, detaching, detachment, diagnosis, disjunction, disjuncture, dismemberment, disparting, disseverance, disseverment, dissolution, distinguishing, distribution, disunion, disuniting, dividing, divorce, divorcement, parceling, parting, partition, reduction, rending, rupture, segmentation, selection, separating, separation, split, splitting up, subdivision, vivisection |
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| Concept: | Disjunction. |
| Category: | 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY |
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-nouns
disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity; abjunction; cataclasm; inconnection; abstraction, abstractedness; isolation; insularity, insulation; oasis; island; separateness; severalty; disjecta membra; dispersion; apportionment., separation; parting; circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption; elision; caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture; compartition; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration, dilaceration; disruption, abruption; avulsion, divulsion; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility, separability., fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision., dissection anatomy; decomposition; cutting instrument (sharpness); buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw., separatist.
-verbs
be disjoined; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces; peel off; get loose., disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock (fix), unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free (liberate)., sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend, rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice., cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute (pulverize); apportion., part, part company; separate, leave.
-adjectives
disjoined; discontinuous; multipartite, abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated; insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft., [capable of being cut] scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable.
-adverbs
separately; one by one, severally, apart; adrift, asunder, in twain; in the abstract, abstractedly.
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| Antonyms: | junction |
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